一個作家的午後: 村上春樹編選 費滋傑羅後期作品集

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

他極力穿越那深沉的絕望、努力抓住一點微弱光源、緩緩向前邁進的堅定意志。那或許是費滋傑羅身為作家的強韌本能。──村上春樹
 文筆寧靜卻強而有力，正是費滋傑羅晚期作品的特色。──《費滋傑羅》傳記作者 Arthur Mizener
 費滋傑羅的短篇小說在他的寫作生涯中仍被誤解、被低估……他們的確品質不齊，但最優秀的作品當能躋身美國文學一流作品之列。──費滋傑羅專家 Matthew J. Bruccoli
 費滋傑羅最好看的隨筆──他在1930年代所寫的自傳性文章──運用其不朽著作所展現的音樂性以及豐沛情感。──文學傳記作家 Scott Donaldson
 他的才華，就像一隻粉蝶翅膀上的粉末所構成的圖案那樣地自然。──海明威
 他自知自己創作短篇小說的才華，以及二十世紀美國文學若少了他的傑作，會多麼黯淡無光。──文學評論家 Charles E. Shain
 閱讀費滋傑羅小說的樂趣，在於重新感受這些作品多有水準，以及傑作多不勝數。──《紐約書評》
 美國短篇小說的大師。──《費城詢問報》
 他的短篇小說所揭露的是，無論喜劇、奇幻類型，他都駕輕就熟──跟他奠定其地位的悲劇作品一樣好。──費滋傑羅研究社 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society


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村上春樹持續譯介費滋傑羅作品超過40年
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205 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 7, 2022

About the author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

Reviews

[Yunling · Rating 4 out of 5]

同時讀Fitzgerald 的生活經驗&作品，同時讀村上春樹的評論，韻味猶存。
喜歡五篇隨筆～